| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. (The Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xviii, 305. Cloth $49.95, paper $18.95.

Half a century ago, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson (1945), Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., crystalized the Progressive view of business when he wrote that "liberalism in America has been ordinarily the movement on the part of the other sections of society to restrain the power of the business community" (p. 505). This volume on the oil industry, which ends in 1945, argues that such negative ideological views have resulted in a counterproductive relationship between the industry and government. Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien present a history of socially constructed negative attacks on the petroleum business. Revision is needed, they argue, because the alleged sins of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company have not only shaped the popular image of this industry ever since but led to the evolution of a poorly designed and failed public energy policy based on moralistic and false impressions. . . .

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